The full room by room list, taken while the final payment is still yours.
The honest picture from our Oran Park handovers is that the list is mostly presentation: painting defects through bathrooms, bedrooms and common areas, and infills still needed around openings. On these particular jobs the structural work had been resolved at the earlier stages, which is what you would hope to see and what makes the earlier bookings worth their fee. The exception, and it is a real one, is downlights with insulation packed against them, which is a fire risk and is reported as a safety item rather than buried in the finish list.
Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections on Oran Park builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laidInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
The value is in having it in writing before you pay, because afterwards it becomes a warranty claim. If that feels thin, it is a good sign: it means the earlier stages did their job.
Because insulation packed against a fitting that needs air around it is a fire risk, not a finish item. It gets reported separately for that reason.
Yes. The return visit marks each item complete, partly complete or still open, and that record is what you take to handover.
Dozens on a new build is ordinary. The number that matters is the structural to cosmetic split.
Each entry names the clause, tolerance or standard breached. Where it cannot be settled, NSW Fair Trading comes first and NCAT after.
Two to three weeks ahead of handover, so there is room to rectify and room to verify.
